Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • THE REASONS THERE ISN’T ANYBODY OUT THERE? (re-shared to douse the flame war) 0)

    THE REASONS THERE ISN’T ANYBODY OUT THERE?

    (re-shared to douse the flame war)

    0) The universe isn’t really old enough to have confidence it’s baked more advanced civilizations. It takes a long time to bake the elements, and then longer to bake life, and longer for intelligence to evolve. On evolutionary time scales, the universe isn’t that old.

    1) Why do we think we’ve cracked the technological walnut? Why won’t it take us just as long to invent interstellar travel as it took to invent either farming, science, or the industrial revolution? Why isn’t the computational power necessary to harness the first principles of the universe a logarithmic advance over our current understanding? I mean, most of our prosperity today is the more the result of harnessing fossil fuels than of technological advancement. So why won’t it take us another half billion years to do it? (not that I think it will – but we have no way of knowing.)

    2) Out here in the spiral-suburbs its pretty peaceful despite nearly exterminating all life ever 65M years or so. But most of the universe is a very hostile place for life. Most of the starry-places are dangerous given the long period required for life-baking (evolution)

    3) Why would anyone more advanced be interested in us given the likely costs of travel? If you can travel, why go slumming? We aren’t terribly interesting.

    4) Why would anyone interested in us come here visibly and personally, instead of sending (small, fast) machines to come watch us?

    5) Its intuitively unlikely that given our rather young technology, and our inability to solve the fundamentals of the universe that advanced civilizations would communicate by the rather primitive (radiation) means that we do. I mean, smoke signals, yodels, horn blasts, and drum beats seem as silly to us as pushing radiation into the void will to others.

    6) Intelligence emerges via predators. And even though predators seek to pacify once they achieve dominance, I am having a hard time imagining a benevolent ET. I mean, if we’re less advanced, the only value one gets out of the terrible expense of interstellar travel is a planetary life system that they have to compete with us for.

    So. Shhh… Be a good child and listen.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 13:05:00 UTC

  • READ: 5 PAPERS. Will we revolt before the cathedral complex kills us off?

    https://jaymans.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/key-recent-papers-and-postings/MUST READ: 5 PAPERS.

    Will we revolt before the cathedral complex kills us off?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 12:00:00 UTC

  • TRUST IS A EUROPEAN EXCEPTIONALISM – it’s an aberration. (Must read) The rest of

    http://thosewhocansee.blogspot.com/2015/09/why-re-colonization-commonweal.html?m=1HIGH TRUST IS A EUROPEAN EXCEPTIONALISM – it’s an aberration.

    (Must read)

    The rest of the world is low trust (other than Japan).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 11:56:00 UTC

  • is reproductively desirable. Selfishness is reproductively undesirable. Feminine

    http://www.thefword.org.uk/2015/09/how-to-date-a-feminist-2/Femininity is reproductively desirable.

    Selfishness is reproductively undesirable.

    Feminine women have more children.

    Mating requires compromise between high investment and low investment reproductive strategies.

    Feminism is merely hyper consumption – end result of consumerism.

    Net is that the author is undesirable.

    Men empirically demonstrate she is undesirable.

    Her beliefs (values) are counter productive and disproportionately selfish.

    No man with any self worth will find her attractive.

    That is why feminists end up with betas.

    We men happily lie for sex.

    But we do not change.

    She will find a man who is willing to.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 11:48:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 11:30:00 UTC

  • “tries to show how recursive and constructive mathematics could be employed to e

    “tries to show how recursive and constructive mathematics could be employed to economic problems;” Bingo.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 09:42:20 UTC

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  • Well, I have to read it, but from the summary it looks like we’re on the same pa

    Well, I have to read it, but from the summary it looks like we’re on the same page, yes. Thank you for this find!!!!

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 09:40:34 UTC

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  • A FRIEND: RECURSIVE COMPUTABLE MATHEMATICS IN ECONOMICS!!!!! Now, before anyone

    http://www.amazon.com/Computable-Foundations-Economics-Routledge-Experimental-ebook/dp/B008SA2EC6/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&meFROM A FRIEND: RECURSIVE COMPUTABLE MATHEMATICS IN ECONOMICS!!!!!

    Now, before anyone throws silly arguments at me, in testimonialism I argue that all hypothesis is performed by free association, and that operational (computational, recursive, intuitionistic) construction is a test of existential possibility (the reduction of error.) Critical rationalists do not make justificationary truth claims, we make moral claims of due diligence – countering the long standing error which conflates truth and testimony. A Testimonialist will make a claim of TRUTHFULNESS: that he has passed all possible means of criticism, and his theory or description survives that criticism.

    In propertarianism, (as well as praxeology reformed), the application of construction to economics is a moral one: that unless every transfer is constructed from productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer free of externality of the same criteria, that we are measuring THE ECONOMICS OF THEFT AND LYING rather than ECONOMICS OF COOPERATION.

    I have not read this work yet ( I have no american credit cards right now and can’t buy it from Amazon. But I’ll get to it shortly.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 05:51:00 UTC

  • (Trying to explain the concept of a ‘starter marriage’ to Ukrainians and they do

    (Trying to explain the concept of a ‘starter marriage’ to Ukrainians and they don’t think it’s funny. lol I mean, we have all these starter marriages because we’re lied to about men and women and marriage our entire youth’s. But men are men, women are women, we are not equal in interest or ability, and marriage is not a panacea, but a compromise that produces economic returns pretty much forever, and insurance in the longest term. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 05:19:00 UTC

  • Slavic men cannot really compete with their northern and western peers in featur

    Slavic men cannot really compete with their northern and western peers in features – I am not sure humans get better looking than Celt, Dutch, Dane, Swede and Finn, but there sure are a lot of good looking men here, and they have better proportions and fewer asymmetrics. There is a father here marrying off his daughter and he is very good looking. Damn.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-09-13 05:12:00 UTC